by Lauren Wood
The sun was coming up and I still haven't gotten any sleep. I know that Kristin made me feel good in so many ways, but one thing in particular that I was feeling more than the rest, was a lack of sleep. I worked a lot, which meant that I didn't sleep near as much as I was supposed to, but I had never went so long without more than a couple of hours of sleep before and my body wasn’t handling it well.
My phone started to ring beside me and I launched myself at it to get it to stop before it woke up Kristin. The last thing I wanted to do was ruin the moment, even if that time had turned into hours. I was afraid that if she woke up, this moment would be over and everything would be back to the way it was. I didn't want it to go back, I wanted to see what would happen next. This was uncharted territory for me, and I felt like it was time to explore.
The phone did not wake Kristin up and for that I was thankful. If it had, I was sure that I was going to have a go at whoever was on the other end. Maybe more.
“Why the hell are you calling me so early?”
“I was calling to let you know that I got the information you were looking for. I found him.”
“Well that didn't take very long, did it?”
“You say it like it's a bad thing?”
It was a bad thing if I thought about it, because the sooner I got Golf taken care of, the sooner Kristin would be able to go home because it was safe. I had given so many reasons for keeping her there, but I was quickly running out of them.
Soon, I wasn't going to have enough of a reason to keep her. I was either going to have to come clean about the real reason that she was here, which was very unlikely, or I was going to have to make something else up. I knew for certain ones that I wasn't done with her yet.
“So where is he?”
“Cuba.”
“What?”
“Yeah Cuba. You told us that he would be at a beach somewhere, and you were right. Found him right on the beach, drinking margaritas without a care in the world.”
It took me a few minutes to process it. I had to settle this with Golf for no other reason than to make it certain to others that I wasn’t one to betray. The message was just as important as the money.
Golf had taken millions of dollars from me and for that, he was going to have to pay. He had also went for my family, something that was going too far. Any man who brought family into business, wasn’t somebody that I wanted to work with.
“So what is he doing down there with my money?”
“Coke, women, and gambling, from what it looks like. He certainly has a taste for young women, and there has been no shortage of them around here. He is throwing your money around like he has an unlimited source.”
“Considering how much he made from me a couple of days ago, I could imagine that he is. He never was very smart.”
“So what do you want me to do about this?”
That was a question that I wouldn’t have an answer for at the moment. While it was easy to say that I wanted him taken out, now there was more to think about. Now I wanted to drag it out a little bit longer, so I told Dennis that I wanted him to get some more intel before we moved forward.
“If nothing else, find out where my money is being stashed. I need to know if it's at a bank or if he's keeping it in cash at the house. I need to know everything Dennis. I need to know how many guys he has with him, what his security is like, and where my money is. We are going to have to send him a message. I want to make sure that no one messes with my family again.”
Dennis agreed, but at the same time I knew that he was questioning me. I wasn’t one to put things off, I had always worked with the idea that it was better to get it done and over with, instead of worrying about it later.
“If that is what you want boss.”
“That's what I want at the moment. We will take care of Golf soon enough. I just want to make sure that we do it right. I want the message to be very clear so that I don’t have to send another one.”
Dennis hung up and I was thinking about the conversation that I just had. Getting ahold of Golf and making him pay for what happened the other day was one of my top priorities, but suddenly it had fallen down one notch and I was still trying to get over that. Never once had I ever picked women over money until today. That was exactly what I was doing now, and I still wasn't sure what to do with that. I was changing, and I'm not sure if it was for the best.
When I got back into the bedroom from the hallway, the bed was empty and for a moment I started to panic. I know that there was no way that she could all of the sudden be gone. She could never just take off like that, but that is exactly where my mind went. I was holding on to what was happening between us and it seemed too good to be true. There was a part of me that was afraid that I was going to realize it was all a dream. A very fucking good dream that was now over.
“I refused to call out her name, so sure that I was going to find that it was all in my head. It didn't make sense how she came to be in my life, so a part of me was so sure that she wasn't real.
I sat on the edge of the bed, pretty damn sure that it was all in my head. I don't know why I thought that, but it was a feeling that I just couldn't shake. I couldn't shake the idea of that I was about to realize none of this was real.
So sure of it, I laid back down, hoping I get back to sleep and get back to Kristin. If that was where I had to find her, I had a feeling I was going to start getting more sleep now.
It was only when I slid across a large wet spot that I realized I was losing my damn mind. Of course she was real. I was laying in her cum from the night before. Where she came like a geyser and the wetness was now on my leg.
“Kristin?”
I didn't hear her say anything and I got up out of the bed and moved down the hallway. I looked into the room that I had given her to stay in and it was empty as well. It was only when I got to the end that I heard the shower running.
Creeping in the door as I had when she first got here, I opened the curtain a little bit.
“Do you want some company?”
“As long as you're going to let me wash off and not get me all sticky again. I can't believe I went to sleep like that last night. It was all over me this morning. What time is it?”
She was talking to me like nothing happened, like everything hadn’t all changed in one night. I was standing here, believing that she was a figment of my imagination and she was asking me what time it was. What a trivial question all of a sudden when my mind was on so many more things.
Taking that as a good enough answer, I got into the shower next to her. I made sure that I didn't promise that I was going to be good. There was no way that I was going to be able to and I wasn't even going to pretend that I was going to try.
Seeing her wet and lathered up was all that I needed. I was already hard, ready to slide inside of her again. I was convinced that no man on earth could see what I was looking at right now, and not want to do the very same. Kristin was made for this. She was made for me.
“So what is on the game plan today?”
“Same as always, few meetings and one of them I will have to take myself. You will stay here.”
Kristin wasn’t so happy about the last part, but since I’d found out where Golf was with my money, I had to make a trip south. I didn’t want Kristin to be anywhere around that.
“Are you sure you can’t have any company?”
“Yeah, I’m sure.”
She stuck her lip out and pouted. It was a play that I’d seen so many times before and it never bothered me. I didn’t like her upset, no matter how necessary it was.
“Don’t worry Kristin, I won’t be gone long. I will be back to keep you up all night, not too long after dark.”
That gave her a little bit of a smile, but it was clear that she wasn’t too happy about what was going on.
“Is there anything that I can do to make your day a little better?”
“I would love to get out, see the city.”
“I think I can
make that happen. I will have one of my guys with you. I need to make sure that you are okay.”
“Do you really think that I’m in danger?”
“I don’t know Kristin, but I just want to make sure nothing happens to you. I was the one that dragged you into this and I want to make sure that nothing else happens to you.”
She agreed with a nod of her head, but I could tell that she wasn’t all that happy about it. I don’t know why, but I leaned in to kiss her. I wanted to make her see that everything was going to be okay.
Kristin moaned against my lips and it wasn’t long before she was starting to get all riled up. I was ready to have her again, but I didn’t have the time. I’d already tasted and teased her until the water went cold in the shower. It had never happened before, so I was under the assumption that we had been in there a long time.
“Let’s get back in the shower.”
“I wish I could Kristin, but I have to get ready to go. You have sidetracked me enough today. I don’t think I’m going to be able to do it right, I’m in a rush.”
That bottom lip came out again and her towel dropped.
“Well I guess I’m going to go in by myself.”
“Look at you. You came to me innocent and now you are a regular little sex-pot.”
I took in her creamy skin and the look of need on her face. It wasn’t something that I could deny, no matter how late I already was. It appeared that revenge was just going to have to wait a little while longer.
Stepping back into the shower, I was surprised to find that it was getting warm again. I wouldn’t have cared if it was freezing cold, because she was so damn hot. There was no way that I was going to be able to get there on time. At the moment, there was only Kristin and I broke my own rules. I was tempted to taste her one last time before I left. I never sampled the same woman twice, but Kristin was different, in so many ways.
When I left the bathroom it had been another hour. I was definitely going to be late now.
Kristin
I was alone in Red’s place again. I know that I told him that I wanted to go see the city, but the truth was, I wanted to tour this large apartment and I wanted to go naturally, where I was told not to go. I don’t know why I was this way, but considering I had fallen for Red, I wanted to know what his secret was. I knew he had one and I wanted to know what it was.
That meant that I had to find the key or a code to get me to go up in the elevator. While Red had asked me not to pursue my curiosity, there was no way that I could stop. I wanted to know what was so important that no one could go up there. I had to know who the man was that I was in love with. I just had to know.
The problem was that I had a feeling I didn't want to know. That's the way it was all set up, and the fact that I knew about the weapon he bought from Golf, a big huge part of me didn't want to know what was up there. But the other side of me had to know the entire truth. I wanted to know who it was that I’d fallen for, even if I didn’t like the answer I got.
It took me a few minutes to really think about what I was going to do. Red and I had developed something between us, that I wasn’t too sure about, He gave me pleasure that I didn’t think was possible, but at the same time there was so much more that couldn’t be said. The relationship could not just be sex, even though that's all we had together. I wanted us to have more, right or wrong.
I tried hard not to look for the key, or for the code that would get me up in the elevator like I wanted. I think a part of me really didn't want to know the truth, because I knew that it was going to be more than I could handle. I couldn't imagine what Red would want a weapon like that for, but that's what he had bought. I knew I was going to find the weapon that he had bought from Golf, but I didn't know what else I was going to find.
It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I just went through the desk that was in his bedroom, and I found several keys. They were hidden in the bottom drawer and I had a feeling that one of the keys was the one that I needed to get where I needed to be. The only chance I was going to have was while he was gone, and I didn't see many people in the house. I know that there were a couple of there, his maid and some sort of butler, but they were not on the same level of the apartment as I was.
When I told Red that I wanted to check out New York, he had made it clear that all I had to do was bring one of his helpers and they would take me where I wanted to go. Since I wasn't going to be calling them, I hoped that they would give me some space if I didn't.
The keys were in my hand and I was making my way to the elevator that I had found the day before. It wasn't the same one that we had went in on, but this one went up only. It was an interior elevator and I was sure that it was going to give me all the answers that I needed. All I had to do was go find them.
My hands shook a little bit while I tried each key in the door. I knew that there was some sort of camera or something of that nature in there, because he’d known that I was trying to find it before. I looked around in the ceiling of the elevator, but I didn't see what I was looking for. It didn't really matter. He was going to know that I had been up there, but I just had to know. I should've let it go, especially knowing what kind of person he was, but I just couldn't. I had fallen for Red and now I wanted to know what sort of person I'd fallen for.
It was the last key that I tried, that finally got me in to the elevator and it started to work. I pushed the only button up that there was and I waited while the elevator ascended to the proper place. Still not sure what I was going to find, I was worried that I was going to find too much. I was going to find something that I could not un-see, and he was never going to let me go.
That was what I was thinking about when the elevator doors opened and I stepped out. It was not like the rest of the apartment at all. It was clear to me then that everything that I thought was true, was not. The man that I thought I loved was a monster. I had fallen for him so quickly, knowing that it was a bad idea, was even worse than I had imagined. The one weapon that he’d bought from Golf, was only the tip of the iceberg.
The problem was that I didn't understand what it was that I was seeing, but I knew that it was bad. The weapons were not guns, or ones that I would recognize, but something else. They looked like bombs, missile, and some little packages that were in test tubes and had biohazard signs on them. Whatever they were, it couldn’t be good.
As soon as I started to see what was in front of me, I wished that I had never came up here. I had learned far too much, in a little bit of time and it was something that I couldn't forget about. I couldn't pretend like I hadn't seen it and I was scared now that he knew that I saw it. He was never going to let me leave now.
The amount of time that I spent on the upper level was only a few minutes. I barely got off of the elevator, afraid that it would go back down and it would leave me in this place. I don't know what the man was doing with all of these weapons, but I knew that it was enough to start a small war. I just didn't know what war he was starting, or who with. But it became clear to me that Red was not at all what he seemed to be.
I started to worry that Red was a terrorist. He had to be if he had so many things that could kill that were at his disposal. Even though I didn't know what I was looking at, I knew that it wasn’t good. It looked like he was going to outfit a small army, but I didn't know who it was against. Everything that I thought I knew about Red was wrong, he wasn't a businessman at all. I hadn't really thought that he was, but I would have never guessed this. Not in a million years.
I heard the elevator door behind me close and I started to panic. I wanted to be on the elevator going down, But at the same time I knew that it was going somewhere I didn't want to be. I was worried that Red would come back early with the people that worked with him. I don't know why I was so damn nervous. I didn’t have anywhere else to go but back down. I had to get out of here before I was caught. I knew that I was never going to be let go again. I’d seen too much and now I was going to pay for it.
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p; Since the first time I got there, I knew I was never going to leave the city. I was never going to be able to go back home to London. I would be here forever and I had a feeling that I wouldn’t be alive. I was never going to see the city. I had to get away from Red, if I ever wanted to get back home.
Whoever I thought Red was, I was wrong. So very wrong. Red was far more than I could handle and I had to get out of here. I don’t know how I was going to get back home to London, but now it didn’t matter. I had to get out of here.
The sad part was that I didn’t want to go to the police. I should have, I knew that. It should be the first thing on my mind, but it wasn’t. I just wanted to get out of here and whatever Red had planned, I wanted to be long gone before it happened. I had no idea what sort of man I was dealing with, but now I did. I just wanted to get away from him. That was all I could think about.
Whoever was in the elevator came back up, I knew that I had to not be there when whoever it was showed up. I don't know who it was, but I knew that I didn't want to be around when they came out of the elevator. I didn't want Red to know that I had seen his upper floors. I felt like if he knew, he wasn't going to let me last very long. I already knew too much, and because I couldn't let it go, I was about to find out even more. I had already found out too much.
The scary part about it all was that I still cared for him. I knew what sort of man he was now, and instead of being afraid, I was more wondering why. He didn't take me as a sort of man that would do something just because, so even though it was clear that he had something horrible planned, I wanted to know why. I knew that he had to have a reason and I wanted to know what it was.